Capacity Management Contracts

Capacity Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Capacity Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Capacity Management over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 433 353 423
Rank change year-on-year -80 +70 +187
Contract jobs citing Capacity Management 86 227 285
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.53% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.62% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 164 204
10th Percentile £362 £350 £377
25th Percentile £425 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -7.32% -6.17%
75th Percentile £601 £600 £675
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £495 £470
% change year-on-year -1.52% +5.38% -14.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 15 11
10th Percentile - £22.08 £14.00
25th Percentile - £23.05 £37.88
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -38.46% +225.00%
75th Percentile - - £65.38
90th Percentile - - £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £40.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -38.46% +225.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Capacity Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,538 36,713 50,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.00% 85.58% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,936 23,592 34,845
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £408 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,114 2,515 1,670
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.85 £36.50 £36.77
Median % change year-on-year -23.70% -0.73% +43.19%
75th Percentile £57.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%

Capacity Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Capacity Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Capacity Management in the UK

Capacity Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Capacity Management.

Daily rate trend for Capacity Management in the UK

Capacity Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Capacity Management over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Management in the UK

Capacity Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Capacity Management.

Hourly rate trend for Capacity Management in the UK

Capacity Management
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Capacity Management within the UK over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London 0 68 £488 -1.52% 33
England -81 62 £538 +8.59% 58
Work from Home +1 29 £476 -3.94% 18
Scotland +5 21 £399 -33.50% 1
South East +43 20 £525 -8.70% 9
London -27 12 £600 +9.11% 27
South West +5 10 £601 +21.31% 1
East of England +25 8 £500 +42.86% 2
North of England +2 6 £469 -4.92% 9
North West -7 4 £461 -6.44% 8
West Midlands +12 2 - - 6
Midlands +12 2 - - 8
Yorkshire +14 1 £488 - 1
North East - 1 £465 -
Wales - 1 £450 - 2

Capacity Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.49%) Confluence
1 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (3.49%) ThingWorx
2 1 (1.16%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (1.16%) Exchange Server 2013
2 1 (1.16%) SAS
2 1 (1.16%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (5.81%) Oracle Assets
1 5 (5.81%) Oracle EBS R12
1 5 (5.81%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (2.33%) Workday HCM
3 1 (1.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 8 (9.30%) AWS
2 7 (8.14%) Azure
3 5 (5.81%) SaaS
4 3 (3.49%) Cohesity
4 3 (3.49%) Nutanix
4 3 (3.49%) OCI
4 3 (3.49%) OpenShift
5 2 (2.33%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.16%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.16%) Rubrik
6 1 (1.16%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.14%) SAN
2 6 (6.98%) Firewall
3 5 (5.81%) DNS
3 5 (5.81%) Fibre Channel
3 5 (5.81%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.65%) BGP
4 4 (4.65%) DHCP
4 4 (4.65%) OSPF
4 4 (4.65%) WAN
4 4 (4.65%) Wireless
5 3 (3.49%) HTTP
5 3 (3.49%) LAN
5 3 (3.49%) Network Security
5 3 (3.49%) SSL
5 3 (3.49%) VLAN
5 3 (3.49%) VPN
6 2 (2.33%) 4G
6 2 (2.33%) ADSL
6 2 (2.33%) NAS
6 2 (2.33%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.65%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.49%) Oracle Database
2 3 (3.49%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (1.16%) DB2
3 1 (1.16%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.16%) Power BI
3 1 (1.16%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 4 (4.65%) Git
1 4 (4.65%) Jenkins
1 4 (4.65%) JIRA
2 2 (2.33%) Maven
2 2 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 32 (37.21%) Social Skills
2 24 (27.91%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (16.28%) Finance
4 7 (8.14%) Telecoms
5 6 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.65%) Banking
6 4 (4.65%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.49%) Front Office
8 2 (2.33%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.16%) French Language
9 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (22.09%) Analyst
2 12 (13.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (12.79%) Capacity Manager
4 10 (11.63%) Availability Manager
4 10 (11.63%) Capacity and Availability Manager
4 10 (11.63%) Programmer
4 10 (11.63%) Python Programmer
4 10 (11.63%) Technical Analyst
5 6 (6.98%) Senior
6 5 (5.81%) Network Engineer
6 5 (5.81%) Python Engineer
7 4 (4.65%) Data Centre Manager
7 4 (4.65%) Data Manager
7 4 (4.65%) DBA
7 4 (4.65%) Developer
7 4 (4.65%) Senior Network Engineer
8 3 (3.49%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.49%) Administrator
8 3 (3.49%) Data Centre Analyst
8 3 (3.49%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.49%) LDAP
2 2 (2.33%) Node.js
2 2 (2.33%) YAML
3 1 (1.16%) .NET
3 1 (1.16%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.16%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (1.16%) CSS
3 1 (1.16%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (1.16%) Flash
3 1 (1.16%) HTML
3 1 (1.16%) Keycloak
3 1 (1.16%) POSIX
3 1 (1.16%) REST
3 1 (1.16%) Vue
3 1 (1.16%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (34.88%) Management Information System
2 21 (24.42%) Data Centre
3 7 (8.14%) CMDB
4 5 (5.81%) Clustering
4 5 (5.81%) Replication
5 3 (3.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (3.49%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 3 (3.49%) IoT
5 3 (3.49%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.49%) Operational Technology
5 3 (3.49%) SCADA
5 3 (3.49%) Wiki
6 2 (2.33%) Derivative
6 2 (2.33%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.33%) Equities
7 1 (1.16%) Blackberry
7 1 (1.16%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.16%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.16%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 24 (27.91%) Linux
2 21 (24.42%) Unix
2 21 (24.42%) Windows
3 15 (17.44%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.33%) CentOS
4 2 (2.33%) Debian
4 2 (2.33%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.16%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.16%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (26.74%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (23.26%) ITIL
2 20 (23.26%) Problem Management
3 17 (19.77%) Storage Management
4 15 (17.44%) Technical Analysis
5 14 (16.28%) Capacity Planning
6 13 (15.12%) Change Management
7 12 (13.95%) Availability Management
7 12 (13.95%) OO
7 12 (13.95%) Service Management
8 11 (12.79%) Mentoring
8 11 (12.79%) Quality Management
8 11 (12.79%) Statistics
9 10 (11.63%) Incident Management
9 10 (11.63%) Planning and Forecasting
9 10 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (11.63%) Time Management
10 9 (10.47%) Agile
10 9 (10.47%) Disaster Recovery
10 9 (10.47%) Performance Improvement
Programming Languages
1 25 (29.07%) Python
2 11 (12.79%) Perl
2 11 (12.79%) SQL
3 7 (8.14%) Shell Script
4 4 (4.65%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.49%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.33%) C#
6 2 (2.33%) Java
7 1 (1.16%) Bash
7 1 (1.16%) C
7 1 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.16%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.16%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 22 (25.58%) Security Cleared
2 20 (23.26%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.63%) ITIL Certification
4 7 (8.14%) Degree
5 4 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.49%) DBS Check
7 2 (2.33%) CCNA
7 2 (2.33%) CCNP
7 2 (2.33%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.16%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.16%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.14%) SLA
2 5 (5.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (2.33%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.33%) PMO
3 2 (2.33%) QA
4 1 (1.16%) COBIT
4 1 (1.16%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.16%) GDPR
4 1 (1.16%) ISO 14001
4 1 (1.16%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.16%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (9.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (8.14%) Active Directory
2 7 (8.14%) Docker
3 5 (5.81%) Hyper-V
4 4 (4.65%) VMware NSX
5 3 (3.49%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (1.16%) BitLocker
6 1 (1.16%) GPFS
6 1 (1.16%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (1.16%) NFS
6 1 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.16%) XenApp
6 1 (1.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (4.65%) Failover Clustering
1 4 (4.65%) Podman
2 3 (3.49%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.49%) QRadar
2 3 (3.49%) SCCM
3 2 (2.33%) Ansible
3 2 (2.33%) FortiGate
3 2 (2.33%) Nessus
3 2 (2.33%) NetBackup
3 2 (2.33%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (2.33%) Puppet
3 2 (2.33%) WSUS
4 1 (1.16%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (1.16%) Nagios
4 1 (1.16%) OPNET
4 1 (1.16%) Opsgenie
4 1 (1.16%) SCOM
4 1 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.16%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 1 (1.16%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (17.44%) ServiceNow
2 10 (11.63%) VMware
3 8 (9.30%) Oracle
4 5 (5.81%) Cisco
4 5 (5.81%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.65%) LogicMonitor
5 4 (4.65%) NetApp
5 4 (4.65%) Palo Alto
5 4 (4.65%) Splunk
6 3 (3.49%) Juniper
6 3 (3.49%) SolarWinds
6 3 (3.49%) Veritas
7 2 (2.33%) Citrix
7 2 (2.33%) Sophos
7 2 (2.33%) Trend Micro
7 2 (2.33%) Workday
8 1 (1.16%) F5
8 1 (1.16%) Meraki
8 1 (1.16%) New Relic
8 1 (1.16%) Tenable